People in Sports

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Coach Dale Steele passes away; won state title at...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Dale Steele - Longtime football coach Dale Steele passed away last week. Dale taught and coached at...

Million dollar babies create sham show sports...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Million Dollar Baby - Alabama football coach Nick Saban makes $7 million a year plus incentives,...

Rocky is an ideal that ain’t real

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Rocky ain’t real - Temple football (9-3) played East Carolina at Lincoln Financial Field Nov. 26...

Connections and disconnections striking the balance

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Connections and disconnections - I suffered a momentary feeling of not belonging. To paraphrase a...

McKenzie Sanford lights and lifts up the spirits of...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Looking for a seat not a story - A down day afternoon, I was cruising the Cape gym watching a...

High school football playoffs begin Nov. 18

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Medulla Oblongata - I was watching a high school state tournament basketball game years ago with a...

Perhaps football officials do too good of a job

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Enhanced by penalties - You have never read, “It may have been a slow game but at least there were...

Connections to the past and each other are the best...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
One for gramps, man - Ben Bamforth won the Henlopen Conference cross country title 32 years to the...

Pick of the manger a player who leads a team to...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Pick of the manger - There is a scene in the movie Deliverance where the off-road adventurers stop...

Coverdale and Bernheimer getting it done at next level

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Validation - Erin Coverdale is a 5-foot-3 field hockey player at Franklin and Marshall by way of...

Who were those masked men in the urban jungle?

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Who were those masked men? Coach Brian Donahue and I were a couple of Sussex Squirrels on Walnut...

Wing T power players past now on hard times

8 years ago
Pretty lethal - The University of Delaware and Caesar Rodney High School ran defenses ragged for...

Friday night football on Monday afternoon

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Friday night on Monday afternoon - I watched Cape’s JV football team at Legends Stadium overcome a...

Beacon Beau Smith barrels around left end for a...

8 years ago
Beacon Beau Smith rumbles to pay dirt - Beacon head football coach Haywood Burton is sixth-grader...

Smyrna striders Ibironke and Bowser also stellar...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Stellar student-athletes - Smyrna cross country had the first-place boy and girl at a cross country...

Sports figures Sam Wylie and Bill Mitchell leave the...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Sam “Plukie” Wylie - A Sussex County teacher and coach, a longtime basketball official and local...

Central at Cape, the Battle of Route 9, has produced...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Battle of Route 9 - The football game between Cape and Sussex Central has been played continuously...

Who are your people and where they stay at?

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Kinship Analysis - “Who are your people and where they stay at?” I walked out of a Ph.D. program in...

Runners veer off course, a coach points blame at...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
They went that way - A quadrangular cross country meet at Sussex Tech, run on the land across Route...

Sudden impact sports, a Dirty Harry weekend

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
S udden impact - Last Thursday night the Cape soccer team was locked in a double-overtime scoreless...

Cross country running is a blissful jaunt while...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
They call me the breeze - Cross country and road running are such great sports, it’s...

Fifteen middle school hockey teams play hard all day

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
We don’t play day - I knocked about the field hockey middle school play day Sept. 17 at Cape, and...

An entire wall challenges the refrigerator on sports...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
The big refrigerator - The home refrigerator will always be the primo place for in-house family...

Hall of Fame every day, all day long, enjoy the...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Hornet Hall of Fame - I was a guest at the Tim Bamforth table Sept. 9 at Dover Downs for the...

Flat screens for fat guys - let football begin

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Reflections - I’m overwhelmed and underpaid, undertrained and overfed. My free photos are...

Human stampede coming right at you

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Stampede of Striders - I have taken thousands of photos of hundreds of road runners running...

Real deal Neil sings anthem then runs biathlon in...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Real deal Neil - I first heard Neil Ewachiw sing the national anthem last September before the...

School sports season begins with national anthem

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Rights and reactions - We all have the right to sit and wear a hat and maybe eat a sandwich while...

Hochrein and Hitchcock are the double helix of...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Big green goalies - If a local photographer focuses his too-big-for-primetime lens on the home team...

The truly inspirational do so naturally and without...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Intelligent and congenial - Tracey Duffy is not a Duffie, although the local families are related...

Bolt is a crowd-pleasing champion and role model for...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Running with curvature - Usain Bolt runs the curve hard in the 200 meters, then lines up the field...

The number 50 motivates many toward milestone mileage

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
You better get 50 - A slang expression from the ‘70s meaning, “get out of my face,” preferably at...

Milton Little League off the chain taking on the big...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Cart before the horse - The Milton Majors baseball all-stars 11-12 team are in the hot mix with a...

Can’t stay in the closet without a water fountain

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Weird in a word way - A few years back after a road race, some women I know asked me to take a...

Groucho gait getting after it power walking

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Groucho gait - Not that long ago, I walked 100 miles a month each month for five consecutive years...

A sea of striding diversity on the running scene

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Kaleidoscope of colors and kilometers - Sports photographers, like the athletes they cover, have...

Diminished capacity the end of the rainbow for...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Diminished capacity - Most athletes I photograph and write about in the summertime are past peak...

Exotic life stories and the art of listening

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Button down - Hard to resist a Benjamin Button reference when writing about 84-year-old runner John...

Hydration is cool but when you’re hot, you’re hot

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Don’t forget to hydrate - You may love to run and work out in the heat, and you may enjoy the...

Mercy rules for mismatches and rules unwritten

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Mercy, mercy me - Mismatches in youth sports are kept somewhat under control by mercy rules,...

Cape girl power: 13-hour days and 13 state titles

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Thirteen-hour day - At 7 a.m., July 12, some field hockey girls met on the track for a conditioning...

Lewes is where I stay at

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Where you stay at? Just a local expression. I will often ask a female athlete I interview who...

One gallon donor blood or money

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
One Gallon Donor - Not to be negative but I am the universal donor- O negative- and if the Blood...

Old enough to act stupid, a responsibility and...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Old enough to act stupid - The drinking age is 21, which seems to be no deterrent to drinking...

Volleyball in the Little Big House

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Let’s talk volleyball - Last fall, first-year varsity volleyball coach Tyler Coupe led the Vikings...

Little League baseball tournaments have launched

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Welcome to my house - The Cape campus is the greatest venue for just about anything, from the...

Draw Dogg and Draw Kat face off at Vikings Lacrosse...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Draw Dogg and Draw Kat - Both Meg Bartley and later Kat Judge were centerpieces on state...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Dan McGinniss: A walk and talk of sports history

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Coach McGinniss - Dan McGinniss, now 81 years old, was at the Georgetown Library 5K watching his...

Cape’s Austin Elliott verbally commits to UNC

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Verbal commitment - Cape baseball player Austin Elliott , who just completed his sophomore season,...

Sunday morning sea of sports diversity is better...

8 years ago
Let’s get fired up - I love my diversified life, nestled inside my diversified country, and all...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Bagging the bracket, the best earned trophy for a...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Situational toughness - The Cape wrestling team placed third out of 16 teams last weekend at the...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Playing one for the team is a novel way to help...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
No debt for success - There is no I in team, but there is a me, and the goal is to win as long as “...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Fun with friends along the rails of competition

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Fun along the fence - I worked the rails at Wednesday night’s field hockey game at the University...
People in Sports

Dragging a chain up and down the football sidelines...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Double-leg takedown - I can’t get air, but I don’t need oxygen. I had just limped onto the Smyrna...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Standards that slide are more fun than rigid rules...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
We talkin’ Praxis, man - I never did figure out tests and measurements of other human beings, and I...
People in Sports

Cape field hockey and soccer ready for Championship...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Super Tuesday - Cape Henlopen field hockey and soccer will play for Henlopen Conference...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

That vibration in my pocket better not be your mom...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Get in the hole! Perhaps the lamest of all sports fans is the guy who screams "get in the hole...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Sports and politics blend like a Tutti-Frutti Smoothie

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Sports and politics - Celebrities in sports as well as sportswriters are expected to play in their...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Chirping and chattering and the cardinal rules of...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Cardiac yak yak - The cyber wireless updates transmitted a certain chirpiness from the Cape at...
PEOPLE IN SPORTS

Mumbling into a microphone defeats the purpose of...

Dave Frederick
9 years ago
Mumbling out loud - I must admit I do it; I didn’t always, but I do now. What is said I’m saying to...